Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Malone, like her co-debts in Austin, went the wedding dress route. "It was a lot of fun to get dressed up. I mean, I had to go buy a weeding dress with my mom. It was a little weird; I was thinking about when I'm actually going...
...million times better than anything Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills have produced in years. The excellent opener, "Silence Kid," a message to a shy little boy who shouldn't listen to his grandmother's advice, seems to reference almost every sub-genre of rock (classic oldies, weird early '80s experimental music from New Zealand, and more) while still maintaining its own integrity. People have always accused Pavement of being derivative, and it's true that they often should like other great bands. But that's rock'n roll, pal, take it or leave it! The final song...
...minimalist musicians, and haunting lyricists, and (both) capable of acoustic solo outings so emotionally honest that your ears may burn, the Jefferies brothers were also able to fly off no noisy "experimental" larks. It's a measure of how intense the rest of the record seems that the noisy weird avant-classical sections come across as comic relief: Home," a procession of squeals and grinds that begins "I saw New Zealand" and ends, "HIT ME!" ("Flipper Go Home," by the way, was written by TKP's sometime third member, Chris Matthews, whose contribution shouldn't be slighted; he died only...
...happy endings, surviving even the first-year formal. "Things went very well, and we've been going out since the week before the formal," sighs one lovestruck junior. Despite this seeming bliss, the man refused to leave his name, so perhaps all is not peaches and cream. "Things are weird right now. Our relationship is very up in the air," he says...
...never, to the best of my memory, had a strong urge to lie on greased-up, aerodynamic sled that flies off in a different at 80 mph with the slightest wrong body movement. Maybe I'm weird that...